As the immigrants became acculturated into the American society, these beliefs and superstitions were forgotten. |
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These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism. |
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He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions. |
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At the heart of our greatest superstitions has always been a glimmer of truth. |
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There are many ideas and traditions about psychic phenomena that have been regarded as superstitions. |
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Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast. |
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These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect. |
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According to superstitions, hammerkops are bad omens, and it is considered bad luck to harm them. |
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On the other hand, that overactive imagination can also cause irrational fears, superstitions, and even paranoia. |
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I see them as ghouls preying on the death and misery of other people to earn money and fame or convert others to their silly superstitions. |
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From beneficial protectors to deliverers of evil, owls have been important in human superstitions across cultures throughout the world. |
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Such superstitions were gradually forgotten as Romanian immigrants became acculturated into American society. |
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For thousands of years religious dogma and tribal superstitions kept scientific thinkers in a locked box. |
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Many Tamils also worship village deities, and believe in such popular superstitions as spirits and the evil eye. |
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The horrifying screams of petrels and shearwaters coming to their burrows after sunset have given rise to all kinds of superstitions. |
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Porphyry was a Neoplatonist philosopher and writer against popular superstitions. |
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The Celtics have many superstitions and traditions surrounding weddings and brides in particular. |
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There was a time when Highland spaewives believed in microbes and infection while the qualified physicians laughed at their quaint superstitions. |
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During my senior year of high school, I was the captain of my basketball team and the king of superstitions. |
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This is because epilepsy is all the time associated with superstitions and spiritism. |
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Second, there are socially shared superstitions such as the bad luck associated with black cats or divination systems such as numerology. |
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As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions. |
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Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions. |
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I can't summon the necessary faith to believe in magic if I suspect it's inconsistent nonsense, or a mess of superstitions based on fallacies. |
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Many of these traditions are only simple customs or superstitions that have been passed down for centuries. |
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In addition to formal calendars using certain flowers, superstitions and old wives' tales about plants and flowers abound for each month of the year. |
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But I live in a country ridden with religious overtures in every facet of life, of silly, stupid superstitions, traditions and beliefs that are senseless and illogical. |
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But these slightly prejudiced persons generally have idolatries and superstitions of their own, particularly idolatries and superstitions in connection with celebrated people. |
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The persecution of albinos, a recent phenomenon, was the work of individuals who persisted in believing in archaic superstitions and witchcraft. |
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Over the years, multiple myths and superstitions have been invented regarding traditional and online slots. |
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Some women still practice the traditional ways of taking care of and delivering baby and other superstitions. |
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They agreed that there was a pressing need for further information so as to dispel such superstitions. |
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The world is sprinkled with superstitions and completely crazy religious cults. |
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Kohdamani explained that he had not criticised Khomeiny, just certain religious superstitions. |
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While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions. |
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The point, however, is to remember that the medieval Japanese, with all their fears and superstitions, did make a clear distinction between the natural and the supernatural. |
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You feel you get to know all the characters and their quirks, the island and its people, and the magic and superstitions come to life in an burst of colour. |
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Sikhism preaches a message of devotion and remembrance of God at all times, truthful living, equality of mankind, social justice and denounces superstitions and blind rituals. |
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Actually there was a body of popular superstitions and observances which came from a deeper and older source than Druidism, and was destined to long outlive it. |
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Regrettably, there is no guarantee that future members of the House of Lords will not give credence to European doctrinal superstitions. |
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Saddled with a host of superstitions, it has been often called an unlucky gem, despite also being feted as a birthstone. |
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Which roots, if they be suffered in the Lord's vineyard, they will overspread all the ground again with the old errors and superstitions. |
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I disapprove of those preaching a blind faith, a faith that lacks knowledge, that is acquired through fear and superstitions. |
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He does it humorously, but behind the humor are all sorts of superstitions and beliefs. |
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This section ends with theatre anecdotes: scintillating repartees, superstitions, flashes of genius, and one-of-kind events are on the bill. |
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The last initiated priests influenced the people by granting their Mental by another skew: superstitions. |
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Mao tried to ban superstitions, disdainful of their hold on the popular imagination if not of the Mao cult that arose in their place. |
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Similarly, the tie-in with South American legends and superstitions attempts to engage with a mythic archetype of monstrous evil, but this too is patchy and unconvincing. |
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How far removed that is from arriving at choices and judgments on the basis of sheer guesses, superstitions, and folkway habits of thought. |
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All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions. |
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The conservative mind, always prone to superstitions which vest man-made money with natural properties, became terrified that all the tinkering would end with debasement of the coin. |
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I t is up to us now, before the work, to imagine the anxious faces, the signs of the cross like as many superstitions, the waves to the beauties of the first rows. |
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Trampling on indigenous prescientific superstitions about the cause of mental illness seemed a small price to pay to relieve some of the social suffering of the mentally ill. |
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Taboos and superstitions can dominate whole civilizations, but that does not mean that the people become unable to manage their interests or that they are reduced to extinct psyches. |
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He was the founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, an organisation set up to eradicate superstitions. |
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Kashrut and other laws were the object of many jokes and superstitions. |
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Even in so-called modern times, in a day when objective evidence is highly valued, there are few people who would not, if pressed, admit to cherishing secretly one or two irrational beliefs or superstitions. |
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The customs and superstitions of a time not so long ago come to life again in this legend illustrated with watercolours by Stéphane Jorisch that draw the reader into a frenetic pas de deux. |
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Coolie superstitions might be deplored but there was no fear of them paganising the colony. |
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Mr. Firode deploys this catchpenny mysticism with a light touch, focusing especially on the petty superstitions that even rational, modern people carry around like tattered rabbits' feet. |
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The real estate business is rife with superstitions, and now more than ever brokers are flocking to the rainstick during the drought. |
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Bibles often became the subject of superstitions, being used in divination. |
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Issues of witchcraft mainly remain as speculations based on superstitions within families. |
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Disbelief of genetic risks and test results, because of superstitions or beliefs in supernatural explanations, require exquisite sensitivity and respect by the counsellors. |
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The intuition that men had about the supernatural was influenced by their imagination, and around the force of evil, sciences, cults, superstitions, and myths were formed that have survived until these times. |
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If they do not accept Him in this way, people will continue to live without love, in suffering and misery, in outer beliefs, superstitions, and delusions. |
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Belief system: There are superstitions in burlesque. |
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People who seem to be otherwise intelligent put their faith in remedies that are no more than superstitions, although the whole sum of medical knowledge is readily obtainable from family doctors and public clinics. |
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The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions. |
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Of course, many people claim that they believe in absurd or irrational things, but strictly speaking these are not beliefs, but superstitions, pseudo-beliefs, etc. |
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Along the way Belon did his best to debunk a number of legends and superstitions, for example about the purportedly miraculous medical properties of terra sigillata. |
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Building on the case for tough-mindedness, King identifies the dangers of soft-mindedness. He writes that the soft-minded are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions. |
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It ranks and de-ranks these superstitions throughout the year. |
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